Bicycle-holder



(No Model.) A v I L. H. SNYDER.

BICYCLE HOLDER.v No. 599,645. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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NTTE STATES PATENT EETCE.

LYMAN H. SNYDER, lOF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

` BICYCLE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,645, dated February 22, 1898.

Application led J une 15, 1897' Serial No. 640,808. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN H. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Southington, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Holders, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to improvements in bicycle-holders; and the main object of my improvement is to furnish a simple and convenient article for attachment to a post or building for holding a bicycle in an upright position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my holder with its springarms turned up, so as to be out of the way. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line so of Fig. 1. Fig. Sis a like view of the same with the spring-arms turned down in position for use. Fig. 4 is a perspective View 'of my holder as provided with two pair of spring-arms, the same being represented with the said arms in position for use.

A designates a base-plate provided with screw-holes 5 5 for the convenient attachment of the device to the side of a building or other suitable support. On the front of said base-plate, near its end, are two stoplugs 6 6, with side Webs 9 extending upwardly from the outer side of said lugs to the edges of the base-plate.

I form a pair of spring-arms '7 7 from a single piece of metal with a iiattened shank 8, that connects their inner ends. The outer ends of the spring-arms are provided with rolls or coils lO to serve as guides, and the body of the arms are bowed outwardly, as best shown in Fig. 1, in order to better em- The' general in plan View is substantially that of a {iattened U. The shank 8 is long enough to span both of the stop -lugs and a little less in length than the distance from one of the side webs 9 to the opposite side web. A spring 1l is secured to the base-plate by any suitable means, preferably by the screw 12. The spring-arms are placed on the base-plate with their shank over the lugs and between the side webs, and there they are secured by act as a stop to 'prevent them from being' turned down beyond a right-angular position to the base, while the angular faces of the iiattened shank are acted upon by the spring and serve to hold the arms against being accidentally turned out of place on their hinge.

The device should be secured on its support with its spring-arms at a height equal to or a little above half thediameter of the bicycle-wheel to be received within the said spring-arms.

The holder shown in Fig. 4 is of the same general construction. The base-plate A a is made long enough for two pair of springarms, and the spring 11a is long enough to bearupon the shanks of both pair of arms. All the other parts are of the same construction as before described and have the same reference-numerals, but the upper pair of spring-arms and coacting parts are arranged so that said arms turn down for folding out of the way against the base-plate, and vice versa. In securing this holder to its support it should be set with the middle of its length a little above the axis of the wheel to be held.

lVhen the holder is not in use, the springarms are turned back against-the base-plate out of the way, as shown in Figs. l and 2. For holding a bicycle the spring-arms 'are turned into their horizontal position,as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and one of the wheels of the bicycle may be run in between the springarms to hold the bicycle in an upright position. In thus running the wheel into the arms the said arms spring outwardly to admit the wheel and then spring toward each other to embrace the pneumatic tire. Thus the wheel will be supported against falling on said base-plate between said side Webs,

over laterally, and if the arms are properly and a spring pressing against said shank, Io

curved they will also tend to prevent the bieyele from running backward, so as to Withsubstantially as described. draw from the holder. LYMAN H. SNYDER.

5 I claim as my invention-- The combination of the base-plate having Witnesses:

stop-lugs and side Webs, with the pair of spring-arms having an angular shank resting MARCUS II. HoLooM, EDWIN G. LEWIS. 

